russia's position with dmitri medvedev advisor on ecology issues and the president of the world meteorological organization stay with us. thank you for sitting down with us the first question is about protocol what's your take on it. your lives and it is an efficient international regulation mechanism which allowed the participating states to get a taste of collect their work it was not simple if you look at the protocol now the question is whether to prolong the second period of the protocol i would say that it is inefficient and applicable in its current form our president new video of us said russia was not going to take part in the second period of the political realm or the reason for that is set out in the fourth report of an intergovernmental experts group which states that global warming is accelerating but in order to prevent a reversible climate change we have to make sure that global temperature grows by more than two degrees celsius if the gross to a higher level they accumulated changes in the climate and the biota will make life on earth very uncomfortable for civilisations the n

. >>> the worl meteorological agents organization says the levels of carbon dioxide and two other greenhousees in the rts mohere reached record highs in 2009. thewmo says that last year's global average concentration of carbon dioxide in the air was 386.8 parts per million. at u0.42% from the previous year. the concentration of methane as well as nitrous ode wlso up by 0.2% from a year earlier. the wmo attributes the rise in methane to melting frozen soil undeunusual high temperatures in the northern hemisphere and heavy rainfall in the tropics caused by the la nina weather phenomenon japan' meteorological agency says it expects the methane increase will continue this year, but the agency also says that it's vital to reduce gas emissions in the long run as most of them are the result of human activity. >>> the international media had e opportunity on wednesday to watch three astronauts from japan, the united states, and russia undergoing training for a space flight. japanese astronaut satoshi furukawa will travel to the international space station aboard a russian soyuz spacecraft along with

they have one observation history because they say there are strict requirements of the world meteorological organization and therefore observation mistakes of course there may be some but there are a few if somebody takes a look at that data fifty years from now the me state that something could have been done differently but from the point of view of today capacity the scientific facts we have to fully comply with what we should have i have great concerns that in this particular case those scoundrels are not about how those data are being gathered but on how they're being presented to the enter governmental groups of experts assessing them that's where different interpretations may occur for instance i've been saying that according to some scientists some countries should cut concentration of greenhouse gases by twenty five to forty percent by twenty twenty that's what european scientists did introduce my attitude towards that is that of distrust because in this case scientists were tackling the issue from the political point of view interpret ing scientific research data and drawing up a

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so boy some real wintery weather to dovetail with the arrival of december, and meteorological winter this week. 52 today, 40 tomorrow, 30 wednesday, 35 to 38 thursday and friday when the sun is out, but snow and sleet in sections security and colder air sunday. >> thanks for joining us today. have a great afternoon. >> hope you have a great afternoon. we're back at 5:00 and 9:00. >>> we leave you now with one of the great performances in rap music. with jakyl. you can see them at polling group at tailgaiters. <

and it's meteorological winter. mark and micah, we will end the sunniest autumn, today notwithstanding in almost 11 years. everyone in the last nine months have been above normal. that means the entire spring, summer and fall have been above normals as we look at clouds coming in, and boy, the raining on the area. every one of the last seasons has been warmer than normal so it's about time for a little cooler weather and boy it's on the move tonight. we'll show it to you in just a bit. tomorrow will be a day of change, starting with mild and cooling off. we may have our first official snow flurries at mid way airport on the way in a few hours and a system friday night and saturday to be watched. at this hour, it's still 46 degrees in mchenry, 48 in dekalb, island lakes at 44, and the winds are cutting in just a little bit. see the cooling near the water off the lakes. it's 46 at o'hare. that's normal than the normal high of this time of year, 47 at midway, 57, gary, the low 50s, and there it is, a map of a very mild

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call it virga meteorologically. there is a sign we've got the clouds thicker out to the west. i think so of that will affect us later on. let's start temperatures. they are comfortable with light winds. we've got 56 degrees. nationals winds are west at 10. the dew point 34. most of the temperatures right now running in the middle 50s out there and the barometer continues to rise. even though mostly cloudy, there's a lot of sunshine. one system in the northwest not too worried about that right now. this guy here, things are moving rapidly across the country. so you see how quickly this system is pushing through with the showers from new york state and western pennsylvania down into parts of the carolinas right now. it's kind of doing the d.c. split. some to the north, some to the south. for us, i don't think we'll see much from it except those clouds. high pressure not far from roanoke right now and another frontal boundary separating chilly air from the cooler air that we have with us right now. here's our futurecast. you see clouds and breaks here. in the mountains, rain and

ktvu in with meteorolog left center. >> watching the rainfall approach the north bay neighborhoods. right now on live stormtracker 2 i can show you this. the temperatures still on the cool side. remember we are talking about freeze warnings in this area over the past few days. not the case overnight with the temperatures basically near the 40 degrees mark. there is the expanded view with the rain showers really targeting the north coast up towards crescent city. all of this activity will spread to the south. at least here in the bay area right now you can see once again that activity is moving into the northwestern portions of sonoma county. not all of this is reaching the ground. already some rainfall reports. could have a few sprinkles moving into cloverdale and guys geyserville and coming up the heaviest rain bands for tomorrow. look at the projected rain totals over the next 24 hours. >> you can track the weather yourself if you like with live stormtracker 2 updates any time. go to ktvu.com and click on the stormtracker tab near the top of the home page. >> police are piecing to

richard lindzen professor of meteorology for the department of institute of technology. dr. gerald meehl senior scientist for the global dynamic division of the national center for atmospheric research and dr. heidi cullen cullen the chief executive officer and director of the medications for climate central. those introductions took me about five seconds to read each. the rather distinguished biographies of these extraordinary individuals that would take you five years almost to read so forgive me for not going into such detail but i hope you will check them out on their web site. you will see this is indeed a confident and capable group of individuals. as are with witnesses know we are asking you to summarize an entire career of research and fries brief minutes after which we will ask a series of questions and this is the first panel. we have two other panels after this and we will do our level best to make sure each panel gives a proportionate amount of time at a hearing today and with that doctor cicerone please begin. >> thank you chairman bair to members of the subcomm

things that bothers me in this discussion of extremes and storms and so on, a basic feature of meteorology is the cause of storms in mid-latitudes is the temperature difference between the pole. on a warmer climate that should be reduced. and that should lead to fewer storms. it is the storms that bring and record highs and lows by carrying air far distant places. why suddenly and this complex thing, a particular observation that is actually contrary to the basic physics assumes importance, i don't know. >> we have many cycles of warming and cooling throughout the history of this planet. many, many cycles. and a miniscule change in the amount of co2 in the atmosphere, as compared to other time periods whenever other cycles going on when co2 by the wind was dramatically higher than what it is today. we have seen that this is, the relationship between co2 -- this is what it comes down to. people are trying to tell us the scientific him in the scientific committee, there are people trying to tell us that we've got to accept draconian change in a way of life mandated by law in order -- because